The one thing we knew about Valencia before we came was that it had a massive aquarium area with crazy buildings and museums. So we set off for the area catching a metro train and walking a fair distance until we discovered it.
Very impressive, huge buildings with crazy designs all surrounded by water and other features. The Oceanografic was cool but mostly disappointing. The buildings and area itself look so amazing that the okay features of the aquarium itself felt like a letdown.
Moving on we decided to check out the science museum and the Indy expo they had on. Disappointed that you couldn't take photos inside because they had everything! Heaps of artifacts from the film like the stones in Temple, the golden head from Ark, the actual Ark, the cross that young Indy gets, the staff of Ra etc etc etc even had the Holy Grail. it was awesome. Plus they had real archeology items and information as well. Very cool expo.
Next day we spent shopping and walking around. We stopped in a plaza at one point to take some photos of a church that looked cool. It had a tower and we could see people up there so we decided to see if we could go up. We claimed if it was under 5 euro we'd do it. So we walked into some entrance saw a sign for 4.50 euro and paid at the counter. We were in a huge church and it looked cool, I was thinking it would be cool to have a look before we climbed. Then the lady tells us that we can do a self guided tour with audio of the whole cathedral and each important section has a number that we enter on our audio thing to hear commentary. She then says the numbers go from 1 to 18 with 18 being The Holy Grail which we can see in a room to our right. Pause.
The Holy Grail!?
We entered this church trying to climb the tower and we ended up finding the Holy Grail? Nice.
The cathedral was awesome, had lots of original paintings and crazy designs everywhere. Even had a saints hand, yep, hundreds of years old and you could see it. Weird.
Did we climb the tower? Yes. We realized that when we walked in the right door was the church and the left door was the tower. Fate led us to the right door and discovery of the Holy Grail, which we had now seen 2 of in 2 days.
Ps: the tower was massive, like massive. And it had steps. The whole way. I nearly DIED walking up.





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